Excerpts from mail: 27-Oct-99 Re: (idm) Re: classify! by "Jeremy
Graham"@utdallas
quoted 3 lines My buddy Josh, who DJs jungle and techno> My buddy Josh, who DJs jungle and techno
> says there's no reason to have more than
> a few hundred records if you don't DJ professionally
I've always been wary of this, since as a DJ myself
in an academic setting, I'm surrounded by a lot of
mediocre folks who call themselves DJs. Whenever
I play out I always want to try and take my listeners
on a journey so to speak... highs and lows, various
styles and subgenres within genres.... I mean, that's
why years ago I decided to call myself Bleepbloop in
the first place - I play bleeps and bloops. I have
a smallish collection of 1300 records of which some
I play always... and some I play about once a year.
But I always like that variety. I played a gig about
a month ago where I brought about 2 hours worth of
music with me expecting to be wedged between a few
DJs, and found out as I went on at midnight that
there was no one waiting to go on after me... at 4am
after I'd milked my collection of EVERY track I could
find... I was about to give up when a guy came up to
me and, grabbing my shirt collar screamed "YOU CAN'T
STOP... JUST PLAY THE SAME TRACKS AGAIN" and I
thought to myself, there's no way I could do this.
It's just not right....
I'm playing a party this weekend, where I'm booked
to play the whole night... I'm expecting to play at
least a 6-7 hour set, which in turn should be about
75 records. But I'm going to bring around 300 just so
that I have enough choice to play around.... it's
important... :)
Wonder if I could trade my collection in for a Merc
or a small airplane? I bet Lance could buy the land
that Cleveland is built on.
Aaron
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